1702 in history

1702 events chronologically

The Daily Courant, England's first national daily newspaper is published for the first time

Jul 19

Great Northern War: A numerically superior Polish-Saxon army of Augustus II the Strong, operating from an advantageous defensive position, is defeated by a Swedish army half its size under the command of King Charles XII in the Battle of Klissow

Nov 10

English colonists under the command of James Moore besiege Spanish St. Augustine during Queen Anne's War

Dec 30

Queen Anne's War: James Moore, Governor of the Province of Carolina, abandons the Siege of St. Augustine

Top 7 most famous people born in 1702

Jan 12

Józef Andrzej Załuski
a Polish Catholic priest, Bishop of Kiev, a sponsor of learning and culture, and a renowned bibliophile.
A member of the Polish nobility , bearing the hereditary Junosza coat-of-arms, he is most famous as co-founder of the Załuski Library, one of the largest 18th-century book collections in the world

Jan 14

Emperor Nakamikado
the 114th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.

Mar 4

Jack Sheppard
a notorious English thief and gaol-breaker of early 18th-century London.
Born into a poor family, he was apprenticed as a carpenter but took to theft and burglary in 1723, with little more than a year of his training to complete. He was arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724 but escaped four times from prison, making him a notorious public figure, and wildly popular with the poorer classes. Ultimately, he was caught, convicted, and hanged at Tyburn, ending his brief criminal career after less than two years. The inability of the notorious "Thief-Taker General" Jonathan Wild to control Sheppard, and injuries suffered by Wild at the hands of Sheppard's colleague, Joseph "Blueskin" Blake, led to Wild's downfall

Jun 26

Philip Doddridge
an English Nonconformist leader, educator, and hymnwriter.

Aug 15

Francesco Zuccarelli
an Italian painter of the late Baroque period.

Aug 17

Muhammad Shah
the Mughal emperor between 1719 and 1748.
He was son of Khujista Akhtar, the fourth son of Bahadur Shah Ascending the throne at 17 with the help of the Sayyid Brothers, he later got rid of them with the help of Asaf Jah Muhammad Shah was a great patron of the arts, including musical, cultural and administrative developments, his pen-name was Sada Rangila

Top 7 most famous people died in 1702

Mar 8

William III of England
a sovereign Prince of Orange of the House of Orange-Nassau by birth.
From 1672, he governed as Stadtholder William III of Orange over Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Gelderland, and Overijssel of the Dutch Republic. From 1689 he reigned as William III over England and Ireland; it is a coincidence that his regnal number was the same for both Orange and England. As King of Scotland, he is known as William He is informally known by sections of the population in Northern Ireland and Scotland as "King Billy". In what became known as the "Glorious Revolution", on 5 November 1688, William invaded England in an action that ultimately deposed King James II and won him the crowns of England, Scotland and Ireland. In the British Isles, William ruled jointly with his wife, Mary II, until her death on 28 December 1694. The period of their joint reign is often referred to as "William and Mary"

Apr 27

Jean Bart
a French naval commander and privateer.

May 26

Zeb-un-Nisa
an Imperial Princess of the Mughal Empire as the eldest child of Emperor Aurangzeb and his Empress consort Dilras Banu Begum.
She was also a poet, who wrote under the pen name "Makhfi". Imprisoned by her father in the last 20 years of her life at Salimgarh Fort, Delhi, Princess Zeb-un-Nissa is remembered as a poet, and her writings were collected posthumously as Diwan-i-Makhfi

Jun 15

Georg Eberhard Rumphius
now eastern Indonesia, and is best known for his work Herbarium Amboinense.
In addition to his major contributions to plant systematics, he is also remembered for his skills as an ethnographer, and his frequent defense of Ambonese peoples against colonialism

Jul 19

Frederick IV Duke of Holstein-Gottorp
the reigning Duke of Holstein-Gottorp.

Nov 4

John Benbow
an English officer in the Royal Navy.
He joined the navy aged 25 years, seeing action against Algerian pirates before leaving and joining the merchant navy where he traded until the Glorious Revolution of 1688, whereupon he returned to the Royal Navy and was commissioned

Dec 12

Olaus Rudbeck
a Swedish scientist and writer, professor of medicine at Uppsala University and for several periods rector magnificus of the same university.
He was born in Västerås, the son of Bishop Johannes Rudbeckius, who was personal chaplain to King Gustavus Adolphus, and the father of botanist Olof Rudbeck the Younger. Rudbeck is primarily known for his contributions in two fields: human anatomy and linguistics, but he was also accomplished in many other fields including music and botany